GPT-5 Mini API cost and pricing
Budget compact business replies with this exact model's live input, output and cache prices. The three scenarios below separate usage assumptions from current rates.
gpt-5-miniProvider lifecycle notice
Shuts down on December 11, 2026. Catalog availability and provider lifecycle are separate checks. Provider source
Live token and cache rates
- Fresh input / 1M tokens
- $0.25
- Output / 1M tokens
- $2.00
- Cached input / 1M tokens
- $0.025 per 1M tokens
- Cache write / 1M tokens
- No extra fee
- Cached output
- Not offered
- Web search (optional)
- $10.00 per 1K searches
A cache hit must be reported by the provider. Without a separate cached-input rate, normal input pricing applies. Cache creation uses a listed write rate when applicable; generated output never receives a cached-output discount.
Three monthly workload estimates
Illustrative scenarios, not measured traffic or promised bills. Input includes system instructions, history and tool results. All output, including chargeable reasoning, must fit the assumed output count. These totals assume no cache hits or writes.
| Workload | Input / request | Output / request | Requests / month | Monthly estimate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Short question answering | 1,500 | 300 | 10,000 | $10.42 |
| compact business replies | 1,200 | 250 | 3,000 | $2.50 |
| Long-context review | 40,000 | 1,500 | 500 | $6.51 |
Formula: round each request's (input tokens × input rate + output tokens × output rate) / 1,000,000 up to the next INR paise, then multiply by request count. Billing stays in INR paise; display currency does not change charges. No GST surcharge is added.
Standard, thinking and Fast variants
Each enabled variant has its own ID. The same per-token rate can still produce different bills when reasoning or answer lengths differ. Fast-serving rates are read from their own rows, never inferred from the base model.
- GPT-5 Mini$0.25 in / $2.00 out per 1M tokens
- GPT-5 Mini Deep$0.25 in / $2.00 out per 1M tokens
- GPT-5 Mini Fast$0.25 in / $2.00 out per 1M tokens
- GPT-5 Mini Max$0.25 in / $2.00 out per 1M tokens
What the estimate leaves out
Extra agent steps, growing conversation history, additional billable requests, web searches (billed per search, and their results add input tokens), external tools, multimodal inputs and provider-specific conditions can change totals. Check recorded usage and current prices after testing a representative workload. Use the calculator for explicit cache counts rather than assuming every repeated prompt qualifies.
Model-specific checks
Check the provider lifecycle notice before a new deployment; an enabled catalog row does not promise indefinite availability.
- Context capacity
- 400,000 tokens
- Maximum output
- 128,000 tokens
- Current usage price
- $0.25 in / $2.00 out per 1M tokens
Limits are provider-published where a source exists, not independently tested TokenRex request limits. Exact-version benchmarks remain on the model page; scores from another variant are not copied here.
Sources and verification
TokenRex's live catalog determines availability and charges. Provider documents describe upstream behavior; they do not prove that every native feature is exposed here. These examples are not a claim of a completed live API test.